Episode 509: Andy Kroll

Longform

Andy Kroll is an investigative reporter for ProPublica. His new book is A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy.

“I think a book has ruined me for writing hot takes and spicy Twitter dunks and all of these other one- and two-dimensional bits of ephemera. I wasn't really a big fan of it in the first place, but I can't do it anymore. A book forces you to look at the world in a much more fine grained, humane, empathetic way, and there's no going back from that.”

Show notes:

• @AndyKroll
• andy-kroll.com
• Kroll on Longform
• Kroll's ProPublica archive
• Kroll's Rolling Stone archive
• 01:00 A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy (PublicAffairs • 2022)
• 21:00 "Ted Cruz’s Secret Weapon to Win the Right" (National Journal • Jun 2015)
• 22:00 "Ted Cruz’s Howitzer" (New Republic • Jan 2016)
• 22:00 "The Staying Power of Nancy Pelosi" (The Atlantic • Sep 2015)
• 22:00 "The Last Days of Jerry Brown" (California Sunday Magazine • Mar 2018)
• 31:00 "Seth Rich, Slain DNC Staffer, Had Contact with WikiLeaks, Say Multiple Sources" (Malia Zimmerman • Fox News • May 2017)
• 40:00 Longform Podcast #46: Nicholas Schmidle (Jun 2013)

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